UT Tuition going up again

The ever-rising tide of college costs continue to swell at University of Texas institutions, where proposals released today call for hiking prices by about 10 percent over the next two years at most of the system’s nine universities.

Though UT regents recently capped total cost increases at 4.95 percent a year, the University of Texas at San Antonio asked for an exception, arguing that recent student referendums to increase athletics and parking fees should not count toward the cap.

Regents said yes, so UTSA is proposing to raise tuition and fees by 5.85 percent in 2009 and 5.57 percent in 2010. That’s lower than last year’s 8 percent increase.

For full-time student taking 15 hours, the total price tag for one semester would go from $3,621 to $3,832 in Fall 2008, an increase of $211.

The next year, the price would jump another $213, to $4,046 for one semester.

By 2010, tuition and fees at UTSA will have increased 89 percent since lawmakers allowed public universities to set their own tuition in 2003.